Product Briefing Outline: Brooks Software has
introduced PROMIS 5.8, an upgrade of its PROMIS MES that provides
enhancements in the @PROMIS web GUI making it easier to increase
productivity and enforce stringent quality controls in the production
of precision products. Existing customers using any of the three
previous major version releases of PROMIS (5.5, 5.6, and 5.7) will be
able to take advantage of all the new features with a single-step
upgrade, according to the company.
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Product Briefing Outline: Factory Physics Inc., a
management consulting company, has launched its proprietary software
application ‘LeanPhysics' Support Tools. LeanPhysics Support Tools
enable enterprises to apply ‘Factory Physics' principles and optimize
design, planning and execution of operations. The software complements
continuous improvement initiatives such as Lean and Six Sigma and work
with existing IT systems to maximize these investments by standardizing
a practical, scientific framework in an IT solution that makes managing
operations easier.
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Product Briefing Outline: ILOG has unveiled the first
software package to comprehensively address production scheduling for
all essential front-end process areas within a 300mm fab. ILOG's ‘Fab
PowerOps' software is claimed to create optimal, forward-looking
production schedules for all tools within a given fab process area, as
well as create new schedules every five minutes. FPO has already been
used to optimize production scheduling at a leading-edge North American
300mm fab, according to the company.
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Product Briefing Outline: Applied Materials has
launched ‘NeXus SPC', its next generation advanced process control
software and hardware, used exclusively on a range of Applied's 300mm
process tools. The new diagnostic tool performs split-second analysis
of process conditions which is critical information that can increase
system uptime and yield, protect wafers from process drift and enable
more cost-effective maintenance schedules. Currently, Applied customers
employ the NeXus platform on more than 350 of its process systems
worldwide.
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Product Briefing Outline: Brooks Software, a division
of Brooks Automation, has added a wide range of new functionality to
its manufacturing execution system (MES) applications. ‘FACTORYworks',
its core MES offering, has been enhanced significantly and is now
available on the Microsoft Windows platform. ‘300works', an MES
offering for highly-automated fabs has also been enhanced. The new
functionality will, according to the company, improve productivity and
make it easier to interoperate with enterprise-level applications.
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Product Briefing Outline: Straatum Processware has made further important upgrades to its real-time fault detection and classification (FDC) software for semiconductor manufacturing. ‘Imprint MX3' is a powerful, new version of its knowledge-based system for FDC with expanded advanced process control (APC) applications.
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